Patterns of Conflict
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| Works of John Boyd |
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OODA WIKI Edition
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We talked about generalized tactics, generalized grand tactics, and here’s your strategy. You want to penetrate his moral-mental-physical being to dissolve his moral fiber, disorient his mental images, disrupt his operations, and overload his system. As well as subvert or seize those moral-mental-physical bastions, connections, those things that he depends upon. In order to destroy his internal harmony, produce paralysis, and collapse his whole ability even to carry on. That’s your strategy in a generalized sense, regardless of where you are.
Now, obviously, you’re going to have what? Many specific strategies. But they at least should subsume under them. Or like grand tactics, you can have as many grand tactics or operational things, maneuvers you’re going to have, but they should be subsumed under that, because that, you’re working—this is the human dimension. You’re working his mind. Remember I said, terrain doesn’t wage wars, machines don’t wage wars, people do and they use their minds. And if you can get into their minds, you’ve got the people, you’ve got the machines, you’ve got the terrain. Okay?